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[sleepingknight]

[Yuuki had been doing so well.

When she wakes up on the morning of the thirteenth, there's something different. Hajime will feel it as a sense of confusion and unease, though it has yet to progress to outright stinging. It's... strange. She remembers lush greens and a blue sky that seems to stretch forever, circling around a giant tree from which the world itself seems to spring. She remembers laughter, turning to the culprit and laughing herself in sheer bliss as she takes in the world. Between the six of them, they practically have a rainbow of wings... Siune, Jun, Tecchi, Talken, Nori. She knows their names, their races, the fact that they were her comrades. But...

That's it. Just a brief glimpse into what must have been her past. A beautiful world full of friendly faces that she can't quite reach out to grasp... One that she shouldn't.

And yet...]

Posted: April 13, 2016 08:15 AM
From: ユウキ

Shinki definitely never ever remember things... Right?

[There's no easy way to put it. But she has to know--

Is it... Really okay for her to be regaining her memories...?]

Comments

[killsthebuddha]

Should recall skills or factual knowledge. Not a blank slate, badly erased.

[sleepingknight]

Yeah I remember those things.

What do you mean by badly erased??

[Like… Their memories of their lives might still be there, or…?]

[killsthebuddha]

Are you familiar w/ the five skandhas?

[sleepingknight]

No

[killsthebuddha]

So you get to learn something. Think of it as a way of looking at the elements that form what you perceive as your 'self.' Form, feeling, perceptions, mental formation, and consciousness.

Death should dissolve all of these as part of rebirth into a new incarnation. Instead, we got pulled from the cycle and this half-assed treatment.

[sleepingknight]

Wait reincarnation is real???

[Of all of his explanation, that's what catches her attention.]

[killsthebuddha]

After all of this, that's your question?

[sleepingknight]

Of course it is we haven't reincarnated and nobody's gone to heaven either!!

[That's what she thinks of when she thinks of dead people, anyway.]

[killsthebuddha]

Being enslaved by half-assed shinki magic bullshit is the problem.

[sleepingknight]

Shinki magic?? And what do you mean enslaved

[killsthebuddha]

The magic bullshit that makes shinki what they are.

Is there a better term for being branded like property and given to random assholes to use as objects?

[sleepingknight]

Branded??

That's just how it is though isn't it?? And they're gods

[Hajime isn't a random asshole and neither was Bo!]

[killsthebuddha]

Don't you pay attention?

Most of them aren't gods, and even gods don't have the right to do this. It's a farce.

[sleepingknight]

It's how it is for the normal gods and shinki who were here from the start though

Even if we're replacements

[killsthebuddha]

Even if you believe them, what they've done to us is different. We're outliers and outcast. The rules are bullshit and apparently don't apply the same to us.

But if you like being a slave, it doesn't matter, does it? Objects don't need opinions.

[sleepingknight]

I'm not a slave!!

Being a servant is different from slavery.

And serving gods just makes sense, doesn't it?

Even if the rules are weird they need us to do a job to protect the people here so we have to do it

[killsthebuddha]

So tell me: Are you free to make your own choices? Can you quit without consequences?

Or were you given to some false god to be their property?

Servants have choice. We don't, not unless someone decides to give it to us.

[sleepingknight]

Bo always let me make my own choices and Hajime does too

And besides even if they tried to make me do something I didnt want to theyd get stung!!

If I wanted to leave and serve a different god that would be my choice